Highclere - 2mm Finescale

Looks perfect to my eye Missy.stunning work as always.

 

Graham.

Done I reckon!

Maybe a little bit too 'clean' in the pen - the cattle are obviously very well behaved... Seriously, another fabulous piece of work as we have come to expect

Mmmmmm - that is really nice!

 

Was the cattle dock still used during the period you are modelling?

 

Andy

Does it looks right ?? only you would ask that ! "It's great," you have rased the bar yet again for us all Missy. I think a picture of it on Highclere, would be nice to see. Not 100% were it's going ? If i remember i think it should sit at the end off the station by the sidings? Good work Missy, Whats next ? can't wait to see.

excellent the brickwork is sublime

Lovely looking model, Missy.

Do you have thoughts or evidence of the state of the track alongside this dock?

I know it's not Highclere area, but a picture at

http://www.warwickshirerailways.com/gwr/gwrss538a.htm

shows a similar dock at Shipston-on-Stour, with "bricked-in" track for ease of cleaning-up???.

Classy!

...and Dusted!

 

Top work Missy.

Excellent. That's one off the unfinished list. On to the next or start a new one!

That is VERY impressive. Well done.

Lovely brickwork and weathering

Thanks guys for the fantastic response, its really appreciated.

 

Maybe a little bit too 'clean' in the pen - the cattle are obviously very well behaved... Seriously, another fabulous piece of work as we have come to expect

 

Thank you Steve, that is a really good point, so much so that I have added a little mud to it now, see the additional bit to this blog entry.

 

Was the cattle dock still used during the period you are modelling?

Andy

 

Thank you Andy, I dont know to be honest if it was still being used. The intention was to model it in a 'working' condition though. I was even thinking of adding a cow or two maybe, or is that too obvious?

 

Lovely looking model, Missy.

Do you have thoughts or evidence of the state of the track alongside this dock?

I know it's not Highclere area, but a picture at

http://www.warwicksh...r/gwrss538a.htm

shows a similar dock at Shipston-on-Stour, with "bricked-in" track for ease of cleaning-up???.

 

Thanks Don, From what I can tell looking at the photographs of Highclere there wasnt anything special about the track next to the cattle dock. The plan is to ballast it with ash or similar to represent burried trackwork.

 

Missy

Looks really great, you can smell it from here

Yes a lovely piece of modeling,well done

Tel

Wow - S$%^ Stuff Happens !

 

For what was a slightly tongue in cheek comment, I didn't expect such immediate effects. It looked pretty fabulous before, but now it really oozes 'character' (or something...)

 

WRT the burying of the track, it was sometimes prototypical to set the track in concrete alongside cattle docks to aid cleaning - certainly this was the case at Calne.

Suberb bit of modelling Missy!

 

Just one tiny observation. Cattle van's tended to have a lime wash (or at least they did in GWR days) as apparent by the white staining on their lower section. Would this white staining have also affected the cattle dock? You'd need to check prototype photo's to confim this, but if so would it be worth dry brushing some of the dark vertical staining with a bit of white/cream? I wouldn't add any further vertical staining to what you've already done through fear of over-doing it.

 

Best Wishes

 

Paul

 

 

Wow - it looks even more 'atmospheric' now!

 

There is an interesting film here - one of the British Transport Films, which shows quite a bit of information on how the goods yards were operated, even if moving a whole farm was a relatively rare occurence. One thing I did note was that it looks as though the cattle were only kept in the pens for a short while before they were loaded into the cattle wagons.

 

Andy

Thank you again folks! and thank you for the link Andy, I will watch that later.

 

Suberb bit of modelling Missy!

 

Just one tiny observation. Cattle van's tended to have a lime wash (or at least they did in GWR days) as apparent by the white staining on their lower section. Would this white staining have also affected the cattle dock? You'd need to check prototype photo's to confim this, but if so would it be worth dry brushing some of the dark vertical staining with a bit of white/cream? I wouldn't add any further vertical staining to what you've already done through fear of over-doing it.

 

Best Wishes

 

Paul

 

Hello Paul

 

Thats another good point. From what I have figured out cattle docks didnt get the same level of attention as the wagons did so I am assuming they never really saw much lime washing (unless someone would like to say otherwise?) As you say the staining might be a little too much and in hindsight I wouldnt have made it so heavy, but I did want to make the cattle dock look VERY used.

 

Another thing that I have realised is that it probably wasnt a good idea to fiddle with the white balance settings on my camera for the first time whilst taking the additional photos so apologies for that, its definately noticable on one of the additional photos for sure.

 

I must leave things alone unless I totally know what I am doing!!

 

Missy

Wow - S$%^ Stuff Happens !

 

For what was a slightly tongue in cheek comment, I didn't expect such immediate effects. It looked pretty fabulous before, but now it really oozes 'character' (or something...)

 

WRT the burying of the track, it was sometimes prototypical to set the track in concrete alongside cattle docks to aid cleaning - certainly this was the case at Calne.

 

Thank you Steve. I will have to look into what the track looked like around the cattle dock, fortunately I havent touched the trackwork where its due to go yet so have a chance to get it right.

 

M.

Just one tiny observation. Cattle van's tended to have a lime wash (or at least they did in GWR days) as apparent by the white staining on their lower section.

 

http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php/topic/11970-Bachmann-8t-cattle-wagon/page__p__106364?do=findComment&comment=106364

 

Top stuff Julia!

 

Pix

Thanks Pix, that answer's that one then! I had a feeling that the use of limewash must have ended as I couldn't remember any white stained BR vans!

 

Julia, I think the amount of staining is fine as it is but wouldn't go any further! I was possibly suggesting going over the existing staining with a lime colour, however thanks to Pix this is unlikely to have been the case anyway!

 

That last pic looks the best on the lot IMHO, nice and subtle, so you must have got the setting perfected by then! B)

 

Best Wishes

 

Paul

 

 

Just wonderful!

I would imagine that in GWR days some poor soul had to clean these out. By BR days I suspect the labour wasn't available.

Don

Done? Well done, very well done, I'd say!

if I recall lime washing cattle wagons stopped pre 1920

Missy i know this subject doesn't want to go away, but i hope this might help to put it to bed. I also don't want to step on anyone elses toes or upset any one, i am just passing on what i have read.

 

The practice of lime wash was banned in the 1920's on the railways, due to the fact that the lime damaged the livestocks feet, which ment less money when they were sold.

So i would say it's a safe bet to leave the white paint in the pot when it comes to highclere.